Re: BigDecimal and trigonometrics


<javerberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know an easy way, or know of freely any available code /
> packages, to use sine and cosine on BigDecimal with full precision?

AFAIK, the sine of a value may be an irrational number, which means it
may take an infinite number of digits to represent. Therefore, what you are
asking for is impossible on a computer with finite memory, nevermind whether
it's running Java or not.

- Oliver


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